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Titre : | The Dublin Evening Mail and pro-landlord conservatism in the age of Gladstone and Parnell (2011) |
Auteurs : | Patrick MAUME, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Irish Historical Studies (vol. 37 n 148 2011) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 550-566 |
Langues: | Anglais |
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Résumé : | The historiography of nineteenth-century newspapers centres on the development of a nationalist press nationally and locally, with expansion of readership and titles connected to the great waves of poiticisation under O'Connell and Parnell. Studies of unionist newspapers tend to focus on Ulster or the Irish Times, whose institutional continuity maintains interest in its earlier incarnations, and whose relatively liberal nineteenth-century unionism was directed at the Dublin Protestant middle classes. There was, however, another type of nineteenth-century Southern unionist newspaper addressing a conservative audience of landlords, professionals and Church of Ireland clerics. Such diehard newspapers often clung to older business models involving limited readership, and underpinned their activities by second jobs and patronage from local elites, though the Dublin Tory press developed a somewhat wider audience. This business model, with its diehard unionism, condemned the majority of these papers to extinction in the year after the Land War up to the creation of the Irish Free State. Few claimed their ideological inheritance, as their frankly oligarchic outlook contrasted with the relative populism of Ulster unionism, and most causes they espoused were regarded as deservedly lost. Hence, their contemporary influence is underestimated, though it is impossible to fully understand Ireland under the Union without appreciating the interests represented by the diehard Irish Tory press |
Pays de publication : | Irlande |
Lieu de publication : | Dublin |
Mention de responsabilité : | Patrick Maume |
Fonds : | Médiathèque |